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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Note N. 93 — SECTION IV.

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Note 93, p. 30. Opposition. A body is said to be in opposition when its longitude differs from that of the sun by 180°. If S, fig. 24, be the sun, and E the earth, then Jupiter is in opposition when at O, and in conjunction when at C. In these positions the three bodies are in the same straight line.

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